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The court voted 8-1 in favor of Brandi Levy, who was a 14-year-old high school freshman when she expressed her disappointment over not making the varsity cheerleading team.

The decision diminished anti-gerrymandering advocates’ hopes of preventing Pennsylvania’s most powerful lawmakers from drawing maps that unfairly benefit one political party.

Carli Lloyd is among the 18 players named to the Olympic team by coach Vlatko Andonovski.

Legislators, with all seats up for grabs in November, tacked on hundreds of millions of dollars in additional spending to the major budget increase already requested.

The SEPTA board will vote on the agency’s next budget Thursday. Transit advocate Daniel Trubman reflects on how the system can rebound after the pandemic.

Advocates say a new federal holiday is nice, but it’s no substitute for policy change. On the federal level, most of the big proposals have stalled.

Downtown bar owner Teddy Sourias has already started work on the beer garden to open on the underused pedestrian mall between Penn Center’s office towers.

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One of two Delaware County brothers convicted of setting fire to their Old City business back in 2018 will spend nearly a decade behind bars.

A long-awaited report on Pa.’s juvenile justice system found wide racial disparities and minimal use of diversion to keep young people out of the system in the first place.

Mayor Kenney helped launch the Unity Cup in 2016, as a way of uniting diverse communities across the city around their shared love of soccer.

Delaware is still about 7,000 arms short of reaching the governor’s benchmark by the Fourth of July.

The largest pipe organ in the world is 100% operational, with legions of fans.

Forty-two percent of the 444 registered voters surveyed said that Pennsylvania should “definitely” do more to combat climate change and its impacts.

The bill would be among the most progressive recycled content rules in the country, and would complement the single-use plastic and paper bag ban Murphy signed into law.